If you were to invent a way of sharing recipes and cooking techniques from scratch today, it’s unlikely that what you’d come up with is a traditional cookery book.

Instead you’d probably look at creating an app, possibly incorporating video as well as text, and you’d probably want it to have some way where you could flick through the stages of a recipe without requiring you to get your floury, buttery fingers all over your shiny touchscreen. Read More »

I wrote earlier this year that News International was rethinking its anti-social media paywall policy with regards whether it would introduce a paywall for the Sun modelled on the one employed by The Times.

It had intially been reported that The Sun would follow in the footsteps of the News of the World, which saw its traffic plummet after its paywall went live, but that turned out to be the least of its problems. Read More »

Do you remember Google Buzz? Did you use it. No of course you didn’t. Google has quietly announced it is to shut down its already forgotten Buzz project, which it launched back in February 2010, and focus its attention on Google+.

Google Buzz has gone the way of Google Wave which was axed last year due to “lack of adoption”. The same is true of Buzz, which was a badly executed half idea that never went anywhere. Is Google+ going to make it?

Confusingly there was also a Yahoo! Buzz that was also shut down earlier this year about the same time  Google Video was closed. Read More »

With social media becoming so influential and spreading throughout all the different business functions and applications, companies will require more and more people with deep social media understanding. Or as Brian Halligan, the CEO of Hubspot, said: “if you change your approach, you also need to change your team.”

Kodak is applying a “t-shaped profile”: people need a broad understanding of the traditional marketing background (brand, communication, PR, metrics) and a deep understanding of social media. Read More »

As news breaks that Blackberry plans to offer users free apps to make up for last week’s outage, but no compenstation, there was a reported dramatic fall in the number of traffic accidents in the United Arab Emirates that has been directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerry services.

In Abu Dhabi, the number of accidents this week fell a whopping 40% and there were no fatal accidents while in Dubai traffic accidents fell by 20% from average on the days when BlackBerry was down. Read More »

A new breed of social networks are being adopted by demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street protests, which hit London over the weekend, being used alongside the more “traditional” methods of the digital revolution.

While Facebook and Twitter are still being widely employed by protesters to share photos, organise gatherings and act as a soapbox—Vibe, a free app, which allows users to send anonymous Tweet-like messages, is steadily gaining popularity. Read More »

Chris Milk is already famed for directing The Wilderness Downtown which was a HTML5 and Chrome Experiment music video for Arcade Fire’s song ‘We used to wait’ from The Suburbs album.

His most recent work has been with world renowned Hip Hop artist and producer Danger Mouse who has, of late, been working on his new project band Rome with Jack White, Nora Jones and Daniele Luppi.
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